Abstract
In a 1983 essay entitled Hospitalité française, Tahar Ben Jelloun reflects upon the notion of hospitality in the context of French immigration policy and attitudes of the French towards immigrants from the Maghreb. His lengthy reflection is in conversation with Jacques Derrida’s writings on hospitality, but more so as a counterpoint to the inhospitality of the French towards immigrants. In this paper, I contend that his 2016 novel, Le mariage de plaisir is the fictional equivalent of the 1983 essay: this time, however, Ben Jelloun highlights the paradoxical nature of Moroccans’ inhospitable attitudes towards dark-skinned Moroccans as well as towards West Africans using Morocco as a transit passage toward Europe.
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